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Thread #11255   Message #3073999
Posted By: Steve Gardham
13-Jan-11 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Bold Belfast Shoemaker
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Bold Belfast Shoemaker
Several versions of Bold Belfast Shoemaker on Bodleian website.
Such, London printing, 1860s 5 stanzas at Harding B11(3407)
Jennings of London, c1820, 9 double stanzas at 2806 c 18 (24)
Harkness of Preston, 1860s 9 again, at 2806 c 15(252)
Glasgow Poet's Box has Bold James Irvine, 1857, 8 double stanzas, at Firth c 14(130)

The Rambling Royal was also printed on a broadside at Liverpool but they haven't got this at the Bodl.

There are several older printings in garlands from c1800 in Scotland by the likes of Robertson of Glasgow. Randall of Stirling printed c1800 a 16 verse version.